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Modelling the implementation of technological innovations in construction

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posted on 2014-11-20, 13:45 authored by Ibrahim A. Motawa, Andrew Price, William D. Sher
Effective implementation of technological innovation in construction requires an understanding of the complexity underpinning the process. Most innovative projects do not fulfil their time and cost objectives and it is essential for construction organisations to plan and control the implementation of any innovative concept. Decision support techniques and tools developed to assess new technologies mainly focus on evaluating alternative technologies, with very little attention being paid to the implementation phase. Effective innovation management should aim to ensure the smooth running of innovative projects within controlled budgets and time scales. Models that simulate the implementation of innovations need to consider the effect of experimentation, iteration and refinement of activities that are reliant on volatile information. This paper introduces a conceptual model that deals with the effectiveness of 'Implementing inNOVations In Construction Engineering Technologies' (INOVICET). It includes the model's hypothesis, techniques and application in a case study. The model identifies iterations within the innovation process and schedules activities taking into account stochastic analyses of the information affect on the implementation. The model incorporates a fuzzy logic approach to evaluate the performance indicators used to assess this implementation.

History

School

  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Published in

International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology

Volume

20

Issue

1-3

Pages

78 - 89

Citation

MOTAWA, I.A., PRICE, A.D.F. and SHER, W.D., 2004. Modelling the implementation of technological innovations in construction. International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, 20 (1-3), pp.78-89.

Publisher

© Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2004

Notes

This article is closed access.

ISSN

0952-8091

Language

  • en